The last plantation
Subtitle: color, conflict, and identity : reflections of a new world Black
By: Itabari Njeri.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: United States -- Race relations.; African Americans -- Race identity.; African Americans -- Relations with Korean Americans.; Social conflict -- United States.
Description: Weaving the personal and the political with passion and grace, Njeri recounts incidents in the news - the Rodney King beating, the Black boycott of Korean grocers in Los Angeles, and the shooting of a Black teenager by a Korean immigrant - and their profound effect on her as a Black woman and journalist. In doing so, she lays out with precision and power how the imposition of limited definitions of identity based on race contributes to a psychological slavery that makes the mind the last plantation.

In accepting a larger, multiracial identity - which would substantially define most Americans - we can challenge marginalizing concepts and the way in which the racial debate is now framed.